[vdr] Re: Messages in syslog

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> Following stuff is found in syslog, the vdr-box is sitting idle at the moment,
> no recordings, nothing happening.
> Why are there 'buffer empty' messages, looks like useless info.
> If nothing happens, would those buffer overflow messages somehow relate
> to epg-updates ?
> 
> -------
> Sep 16 09:52:50 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 09:53:25 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 09:54:08 vdr syys   16 09:54:08 vdr[919]: ERROR: unknown picture type
> '6'
> Sep 16 09:54:51 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 09:55:30 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 10:02:34 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer usage: 80% (pid=919)
> Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer usage: 85% (pid=919)
> Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer usage: 90% (pid=919)
> Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer usage: 95% (pid=919)
> Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: buffer usage: 100% (pid=919)
> Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow
> (61 bytes dropped)
> Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow
> (188 bytes dropped)
> Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr last message repeated 303 times
> Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr syys   16 10:10:07 vdr[920]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow
> (188 bytes dropped)
> Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr last message repeated 479 times
> Sep 16 10:10:09 vdr syys   16 10:10:09 vdr[919]: ERROR: skipped 127 byte to
> sync on TS packet
> Sep 16 10:13:13 vdr syys   16 10:13:13 vdr[919]: ERROR: unknown picture type
> '5'
> Sep 16 10:16:07 vdr syys   16 10:16:07 vdr[919]: ERROR: unknown picture type
> '4'
> Sep 16 10:28:53 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 10:30:18 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 10:32:06 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Sep 16 10:32:54 vdr last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 16 10:35:34 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> --------

Please check whether your VDR is currently showing a channel in "Tansfer Mode".
That could explain these messages.

Klaus
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